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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition
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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration - Third Edition

by Ahmad Osama, Shashikant Shakya
March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
724 pages
13h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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5. Restoration

In the previous chapter, we talked about performing database backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Similar to a database backup, a restore is another housekeeping activity that a DBA performs, whether to move or copy a database from one server to another or to recover from an outage or an accidental update/delete operation. In this chapter, we'll look at different ways to restore an Azure SQL Database and an SQL Managed Instance database.

Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance have the following restore options:

  • Point-in-time restore
  • Restore from long-term backup
  • Restore a deleted database
  • Geo-restore a database
  • Import a BACPAC – only for Azure SQL Database

Figure 5.1 shows the types of backup ...

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